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Memoirist :: Memoirist (n.) A writer of memoirs.

Iris :: Iris (n.) A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce..

Biddy :: Biddy (n.) An Irish serving woman or girl.

Sunburned :: Sunbow (n.) A rainbow; an iris.

Iridal :: Iridal (a.) Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors..

Fairish :: Fairish (a.) Tolerably fair.

Hiberno-celtic :: Hiberno-Celtic (n.) The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.

Irised :: Irised (a.) Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent.

Bogtrotter :: Bogtrotter (n.) One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.

Nonpareil :: Nonpareil (a.) A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch..

Synecphonesis :: Synechia (n.) A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens..

Girder :: Girder (n.) One who girds; a satirist.

Wall-eye :: Wall-eye (n.) An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses.

Anglo- :: Anglo- () A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish..

Orris :: Orris (n.) A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.

Iritis :: Iritis (n.) An inflammation of the iris of the eye.

Gairish/ness :: Gairish/ness (n.) Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness..

Osiris :: Osiris (n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis..

Whall :: Whall (n.) A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye.

Irish :: Irish (n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.

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